ThingiverseChange gears (imperial) for EMCO compact 5 lathe
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3D-printed change gears for EMCO Compact 5 lathe
EMCO compact 5 feed mechanism comes with 6 change gears
(for common metric threads): 20, 25, 50 and 3x 60 teeth
For uncommon threads or imperial threads additional change gears are needed:
26, 30, 34, 35, 36, 72 and 40 teeth
While you can buy them from EMCO in Austria and they are beautifully
cut from steel blanks, I wanted to print them on my 3d printer.
The gears are 5.4mm thick and have a bore 14H7mm with a keyway (approx 4x1mm)
I undersized them for the printing and reamed them to 14H7 using a hand reamer. As you can see in the foto, they fit perfectly.
In the second and third picture you can see a 7/8"-14 UNF thread being cut, this uses only the 60 gear from EMCO and the other 3 gears are printed (72, 34, 35). Despite being a quite a large thread with heavy cuts, the printed gears work well. (hand-cranked, though).
Cutting a 7/8-14 thread was the primary objective as that is the thread for my single stage rel